I thought this one up by accident, whilst trying to reply to another thread.

Each post, you gain as many points as minutes have passed since the last player posted. Double posts are ignored unless you gain more points in your newest posts than the one before it.

If you have posted immediately before and after someone's (sequence of) post(s), and someone else posts after you, then you have assassinated them. You steal half of the points of the person you assassinate (rounded up).

emlightened wrote:Each post, you gain as many points as minutes have passed since the last player posted. Double posts are ignored unless you gain more points in your newest posts than the one before it.

Do points gained from assassinating count towards the points you need to gain more than? (And I assume that you steal half their total score, not just the points gained in the posts you sandwiched?)

Only now that chridd has posted. If somitomi posted after you, then chridd posted, somi would have assassinated you instead.

chridd wrote:

emlightened wrote:Each post, you gain as many points as minutes have passed since the last player posted. Double posts are ignored unless you gain more points in your newest posts than the one before it.

Do points gained from assassinating count towards the points you need to gain more than? (And I assume that you steal half their total score, not just the points gained in the posts you sandwiched?)

Your assassination only counts once someone else (besides you and the 'victim') has posted after you, and the points are added on at that point, not retroactively, so it can never occur. (I think?)

If I try to assassinate you, but then you post after me, then my attempt 'failed' and you then try to assassinate me. An attempt only succeeds once someone else (besides us two) posts after us, then the last person in the chain (in this case you) assassinates the person before (me).

So in the chain patzer, emlightened, somitomi, emlightened, emlightened, somitomi, Opipik, you assassinate me because you were the last one of the two of us in the chain before someone else posted.

After making this post, I won't have assassinated you until someone else posts after me. If it's you, then you may have assassinated me or not, and we have to wait again. If it's someone else, then I succeed.

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